Ephesians 5:19 - "speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,"The importance of worship is easy to overlook or replace with service. However, I believe real effective service comes out of a life that is in real worship of the Living God.
Let's start with a definition of worship. When we worship, we give adoration, devotion, affection, and love to the living God. We can do this by bowing before Him, singing to Him, being in quiet submission to Him, lifting our hands to Him, and telling Him all the things in our hearts.
Public worship is also important because it makes a statement that we have given our lives to Him. Our public worship should be an extension of our private lives. If it is not, then it is easy to start to do things in public worship for show instead of true Spirit-led worship.
Jesus told the woman at the well that the Father was looking for those who would worship Him in spirit and in truth. In our times it is not where we go to worship that matters, but that we are worshiping Him in spirit and truth. Paul and Silas began to worship in a Philippian jail. As they sang worship songs in the middle of the night, their chains fell off. Could this be a symbol that those things that bind us fall off as we put God in the right place in our lives?
The Bible also tells us God inhabits the praises of His people. We already know that God is everywhere. However, when we worship him, He is with us in a special way. This verse tells us to speak to one another as we worship the Lord. This is a command for public worship. As we worship together, we encourage each other to be worshipers.
Blessings,
Robert Furrow
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